Water-closet seat



BQLTA T. WATER CLOSET SEAT.

No. 554,501. 4 Patented Feb. 11, 1896.

(No Model.)

ANDRE'W EGRAMAM. PNUTO-UDIQWA-SMNGIUILD L UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD LOVELL TAFT, OF FITOHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 54=,501, dated.February 11, 1896.

Application filed August 3, 1895. Serial No. 558,170. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, EDWARD LQVELL TAFT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fitchburg, in the county of WVorcester and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WaterCloset Seats, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, in which-Figure 1 represents a top view of a seat embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a longitudinal central sectional view on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa sectional view on line 3 3, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a transversesectional view on line 4 4, Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the different figures.

My invention consists in certain improvements in the conformation of thefront portion of the seat, as hereinafter described, and specificallypointed out in the annexed claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A denotes the body of the seatprovided with an oval-shaped opening B and having the upper surface ofthe seat on the plane of the transverse section on line 4 4, Fig. 1,concave or bowl-shaped between the outer edge of the seat and the edgeof the opening B, as represented by the curved lines G C, Fig. 4.

The opening B has a neck-shaped extension in front, as represented at D,Fig. 1, and the under side of the seat in front of and upon each side ofthe neck-shaped opening D is recessed, as represented at E, Fig. 2, andby the broken line F, Fig. 1, and the sides of the opening at G G, Figs.1 and 4, are higher than the adjacent portions of the surface of theseat to produce a sharp inclination from the point G rearward, asrepresented by the curved line H, Fig. 2, and to hold the sitter fromsliding forward, and upon either side of the portions G the surface ofthe seat is hollowed, as shown by the curved lines I I, Fig. 4, tosupport the limbs and allow them to rest upon a plane beadapted to fit abowl having its upper edge correspondingly curved, whereby a frontcentral section of the seat is raised relatively to its sides, is notnew. In my improved seat the front central section of the seat is nohigher than the sides, the upper and lower surfaces being plane andparallel, except where the upper surface is cut away to form thechanneled recess E, the seat being adapted to rest upon a bowl havingastraight or plane upper edge.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- 1. The within-described seat for water-closets having upper andlower plane surfaces with its upper surface provided with a concave orbowl-shaped depression with the rearwardly-inclined surfaces G G and theconcave depressions I I upon opposite sides of the central frontsection; and the lower side of said seat having the forward centralportion cut away to form a channeled recess as at E and present a thinedge E next the seat-opening.

2. A water-closet seat provided with an opening and provided with achanneled recess upon its lower side, as at E, said recess extendingforward of said seat-openin g forming a clear space beneath the centralfront section of the seat and presenting a thin edge E in front of saidopening.

Dated this 27th day of July, 1895.

EDWARD LOVELL TAFT.

Witnesses:

GEORGE HENRY CHAPMAN, F. G. OURRIER.

